5.3" Blue Chalcedony Hand Carved Crystal Jewelry Tray Fruit Tray

A jewelry tray fruit tray cut from a single block of blue chalcedony, 5.3 inches.

This is cryptocrystalline quartz — the crystals are there but far too small to see, which gives blue chalcedony its soft, slightly greasy sheen and its translucency. Held up to a lamp the pale blue-grey lets light through at the edges while the thicker passages stay opaque.

Worked in the round from a single block, with the form chosen to suit what that block could give rather than imposed on it.

Item ID 3100737
Material 100% natural blue chalcedony
Size 5.3 × 4.6 × 1 in (135 × 116 × 27 mm)
Weight see photographs